By Sybil Kaplan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 28, 2012
The “No-Potato Passover” by Aviva Kanoff (BRIO Publishing, $29.99, available from amazon.com or nopotatopassover.com) is “a journey of food, travel and color,” as the eclectic author demonstrates in writing it to “change the way we think about...
By Deborah Fineblum Raub, JointMedia News Service
• Published March 28, 2012
When you have youngsters from interfaith families at your seder table, it can’t help but up the Passover ante. Maybe you are the kids’ auntie, or their grandparent, cousin, neighbor or friend. And maybe, just maybe you’re their parent. Whatever...
By Dr. Erica Brown, JointMedia News Service
• Published March 28, 2012
Three times in the book of Exodus and once in Deuteronomy, we are commanded to tell the master narrative of our people to our children. Sometimes it is because children ask, and we have a responsibility as bearers of a legacy to answer. Sometimes children...
By the Jewish Light Staff
• Published March 28, 2012
Too often a good idea leads to less desirable—though unintended—consequences. So it was with the Jewish Light’s Matzah Taste Test. Wouldn’t it be helpful to buy a bunch of different brands of matzah and recruit staff members to judge the brands...
By Penny Schwartz · March 27, 2012 1 out of 1 Other Media Zoe Scheffy at her home with her knit seder table runners, her first design for a knit seder plate. (Penny Schwartz) PASSOVER FEATURE BOSTON (JTA) -- To prepare for their first Passover...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Passover celebrates the exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, their wandering in the desert for 40 years, and their ultimate deliverance to the Promised Land. But a contemporary observer might be forgiven for imagining...
JERUSALEM -- Jordan and Egypt, due to "concrete terrorist threats," are singled out on a travel advisory for Israelis during Passover and other upcoming holidays. Israel's National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Israel came out with the...
JERUSALEM -- The National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Israel announced travel advisories for Israelis during Passover and other upcoming holidays. Passover, Israel Independence Day and Lag B' Omer, according to the advisory, "are liable...
In conjunction with a national mobilization focused on poverty issues, the Jewish Community Relations Council and St. Louis University are organizing an interfaith Hunger Awareness Seder to take place at 5 p.m. Monday, April 2 on the SLU campus. The...
The fourth annual community-wide Shabbat St. Louis worship service will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 7 at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road in Creve Coeur. This year’s service will include the festival liturgy for the...
Throughout the Jewish year there are several Shabbatot/Sabbaths which have an added significance. This week will end with one: Shabbat Parah (the Sabbath of Parah Adumah/the Red Heifer), one of a series of special Shabbatot which lead up to Passover....
Kitchen J is taking reservations for the First Seder of Passover, Friday, April 6, at the Covenant I Dining Room. Seniors are invited to include their families and friends for the recounting of the story of the Exodus from Egypt over a great meal. The...
